boy, been on that trajectories train for a long time now,huh
This throwback screenshot is awesome. From CogSci 2021 s/o @orthogonal-lab.bsky.social @bradly-alicea.bsky.social #CognitionFutures @jopro.org !
The program session we hosted was "Trajectories in Cognitive Science"
Much of the challenge right now is balancing supporting the pursuit, positively, of outcomes and implementations, while maintaining (or, perhaps, addressing) the legitimacy crises that have emerged around tech- and #ai - #hype.
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‘Yeah this is great, but, we know how the world works now’, is sort of a particular strand of discontent emerging in the 2020s.'
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Just finished: Performing as #Human in 2026: AI's latest twist on 200 years of #MediatedPresence
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#digitalhumanities #history #audience #philosophy
'Mediated presence: a brief history of performing to a technologically abstracted audience'
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Goals: have this much swag in my 70s
#TigerOkoshi and band at @bpl.boston.gov for #milesdavis birthday tribute! #jazz @wbur.org #music
"...Homo academicus is caught between two fields of power: on one side, the forces of money and politics; on the other, the “writers and artists” and “heretics” who produce cultural capital in the first place."
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"The results were so divergent that one has to wonder: If we cannot agree on how to define a ripple, what else might we be getting wrong?"
🎶 Ripple in still water...
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Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
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Great essay by Ted Chiang on consciousness. He nails the centrality of context.
"An observation doesn’t become a convincing piece of evidence because of any specific detail in what’s observed; the context in which that observation takes place is also essential."
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
